Short Riverfront Poems

steam calliope 
sound of sternwheeler comin’
summer lovin’ blues

Written August 2, 2022...

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Our family’s hearth we forgot,
Village well, riverfront, forgot.

Dwelling on idol’s form, figure,
Truth of faith, folklore we forgot.

Trying to hold off teeming tears,
Story’s joyous end we forgot.

Pandemic fears so overwhelmed,
Fixed virus, patient we forgot!

Counting who all contributed,
What all God did oh we forgot! 
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Ghazal |02.02.2022|...

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As kids, we were brought to the beach
at riverfront...sea out of reach.
Our sand was like mud;
neath water, silt crud.
I'd wallow with fun, laugh, and screech!

Now grown, to the seashore I go
where sand is as white as the snow.
I don't go out far
beyond the sandbar
for fear of the silt down below!


Sandra M. Haight

~6th Place~
Contest: Sea Tales Limericks - Old Or New
Sponsor: Carolyn Devonshire
Judged: 08/04/2018
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The sun-bleached exoskeletons 
of old dead trees stand like sentries
along the towpath riverfront
exfoliated and gangling.
In a former age they stood tall,
grandiose to all passerby’s
but they too are dead to recall
their once impressive colossi.
Eventually these remains
will meet their final destinies:
to fall-never to rise again-
among forgotten progenies;
yet many springs have passed since then 
each sprouted trees, time and again....

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Youth  has  fled, hair  gone  gray
Friends  and  family  went  away
Enjoy  the  seasons  while  I  may
Stroll  the  city  in  the  day.

Music  &  Art  help  fill  the  time
As  can  books  on  love  and  crime
Parks, the  ocean,  nature  walks  too
Happiness  can  come  from  a  riverfront  view.

Perhaps  I  won't  see  China  or  Rome
But  I  can  visit  friends  at  home
And  talk  of  days  and  other  places
While  I  see  their  smiling  faces....

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Indianapolis welcomes you.
Navigate, find your place, sailing through
synthetic waterway just for fun.
Off’ring journeys with anecdotes,
carriages, kayaks and pedal boats
worthwhile way to enjoy snow or sun.

We'll park your vehicle, while you fete
with friends, fam'ly, or special date.
Hire out a gondolier; he can hunt 
for local sites, you don't want to miss -
hideaways where you can reminisce,
use Indy’s canal at Riverfront.

written November 29, 2016...

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